Christopher Desjardins wrote:
OK...I've decided to give Alpha1 a second shot at installing on my
laptop...especially since pre-Alpha1 worked great. So I went and
installed Nexenta giving it 33% of my harddrive of 20 big gbs. I didn't
specify an 'active' partition. I currently have Windows installed on
this computer taking up 34% and I am planning on giving Ubuntu the other
33%.
So the installation of Nexenta goes through fine. fdisk, partition - no
problem. It then installs my packages and asks me to create a user then
it asks me to install the grub MBR. I think sure why not...it worked
with pre-Alpha1. But when I reboot all I get is a black screen with one
word
GRUB
It doesn't let me do anything. This is strange as it didn't happen with
the pre-Alpha1 release - I was able to boot right into GDM. Granted the
pre-Alpha1 didn't recognize Windows or Linux but that's no big deal as I
knew a priori that I would have to edit the menu.lst file.
So I've decided that I am going to install Ubuntu and try to edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst to work from there. I am curious what I should add
to my menu.lst fine in Linux.
It's installed on /dev/hdc2 and the slice is /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 that
contains my (/) and /dev/dsk/c1d0s1 that contains my (/swap).
Can you try this:
Boot with InstallCD, "mkdir /a" and "mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /a".
Then "cd /a/boot/grub" and type:
installgrub -f stage1 stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0
Note that the above does not install Solaris GRUB to the MBR.
Also, edit "/a/boot/grub/menu.lst" such that you modify all
references of root "(hd0,0,a)" to "root (hd0,1,a)" and save.
In Ubuntu Linux, edit your menu.lst so that it says
something like this as one of the entries:
title Nexenta OS
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainload +1
The above assumes that Nexenta OS is the 2nd primary
partition in your first hard drive. It also assumes that
Ubuntu is installed with its GRUB in the MBR. If it works,
you should see Nexenta's GRUB and boot from there.
(You cannot boot directly to Solaris from Linux's GRUB
because the latter does not understand Solaris VTOC & UFS.)
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